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19E 06 06 thoroughfare or street shown on the County's or Town's thoroughfare plan, or does not lie within a County-designated transition area; D) The subdivision joins or extends an existing subdivision whose streets are private or unpaved and includes streets that connect with the streets of the existing subdivision and are compatible with and in harmony with the surrounding community area; E) The subdivision's roads would not be accepted by the State for maintenance due to density or some State requirement, other than construction standards, that the subdivision cannot meet. Section IV-B-3-d specifies that a subdivision should meet as many of the conditions in 2) above to gain approval of private streets, and that meeting 1 or more of the conditions will not ensure automatic approval of private roads. We concede that the proposed subdivision meets condition A) above. However, we do not believe it meets conditions B) -E) , nor criterion 1) . The subdivision does not provide for the preservation of natural areas; it lies within the County's 10-year transition area; private, unpaved streets within an area so likely to be annexed in the near future is not compatible with the the urban development that is surrounding it; There exists no reason why the State would not accept maintenance of the street as a public street; consideration of the urban development that is surrounding the area, a condition which is recognized by the County's Land Use Plan, justifies a street built to urban development standards. Section . IV-B-3-c of the Orange County Subdivision Ordinance requires public streets to meet NCDOT standards. Within ares so close to the Town limits and likely to be annexed in the near future, NCDOT typically accepts Town standards as the appropriate. street standards to apply to new development. Town standards for Link .Road would be a 27-foot-wide roadway cross-section with curb-and gutter sections, within a 50-foot-wide right-of-way. We recommend that Link Road be improved to Town standards, with a temporary T-turnaround at its eastern end. An OWASA water line exists within Seawell School Road, less than 450 feet from the site. The site is located within OWASA's service area and within the County's 10-year transition area for urban development. The areas adjacent to the site are already served by public water and sewer services. Because of the- water line's proximity to the site, we believe public water service to the subdivision is - reasonably practicable and consistent with the site's setting on the fringe of urban development. The nearest public sewer line is located on the high school property, approximately 2000 feet west of the subdivision site. We accept this distance as too great to reasonably expect a developer to extend sewer service for, the relatively low urban density proposed for the subdivision. However, we do believe it reasonable to require the dedication of the utility easements needed to provide future public sewer service to the subdivision and adjacent •